MTK Budapest

Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre (Hungarian for "Hungarian Circle of Physical Practitioners") is a multi-sports club from Budapest, founded in 1888. It has sections for football, handball, basketball, volleyball, futsal, ice hockey, water polo, cycling, gymnastics, athletics, fencing, canoeing, boxing, wrestling, swimming, rowing, karate, taekwondo, sailing, speed skating, skiing, table tennis, tennis and chess.

Departments

Team sports

• Football:
• men's football (since 1888)
• women's football (since 2004)
• Handball:
• women's handball (1946–1975, 1993–2000, since 2013)
• Basketball:
• women's handball (1945–1997, since 2011)
• Volleyball:
• women's volleyball (since 1947)

Individual sports

• Athletics (since 1888)
• Boxing (1893–1914, 1922– , since 1951)
• Bridge (since 1933)
• Canoeing (since 1951)
• Chess
• Gymnastics
• Fencing (since 1908)
• Judo (since 2019)
• Karate (since 2010)
• Rowing (1895–1942, since 1947)
• Rhythmic gymnastics (since 2011)
• Swimming (1892–1958, since 1962)
• Skating
• Taekwondo (since 1989)
• Tennis (1930–, 1947–, since 1991)
• E-sports

Dissolved departments

• Auto-motor (1926–1953)
• Bandy
• Basketball
• men's basketball
• Button football
• Cycling
• Field hockey
• Futsal
• Handball
• men's handball (1924–1958)
• Ice hockey
• Sailing
• Skiing
• Water polo
• Weightlifting (1934–?, 195?–?, 196?–1966)
• Wrestling

Supporters and rivalries

Supporters

Notable supporters

• Sándor Demján, businessman and entrepreneur
• Károly Gesztesi, actor
• , poet
• , musician and businessman

Rivalry

The fixture between MTK Budapest FC and Ferencvárosi TC is called the Örökrangadó or Eternal derby. The first fixture was played in the 1903 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season. It is the oldest football rivalry in Hungary.

Honours

Active departments

Football (men's)

• Hungarian Championship
• Winners (23): 1904, 1907–08, 1913–14, 1916–17, 1917–18, 1918–19, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1928–29, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1950, 1953, 1957–58, 1986–87, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2007–08
• Hungarian Second League
• Winners (4): 1994–95, 2011–12, 2017–18, 2019–20
• Hungarian Cup
• Winners (12): 1909–10, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1913–14, 1922–23, 1924–25, 1931–32, 1951–52, 1968, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1999–00
• Hungarian Super Cup (defunct)
• Winners (2): 2003, 2008
• Hungarian League Cup (defunct)
• Winners (2): 2012–13, 2014–15
• Mitropa Cup (defunct)
• Winners (2): 1955, 1963
• Å tefánik Tournament (defunct)
• Winner (1): 1933

Basketball (women's)

• Hungarian Championship
• Winners (10): 1953, 1956, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1988–89, 1990–91
• Hungarian Cup
• Winners (8): 1955, 1961–62, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972

Football (women's)

• Hungarian Championship
• Winners (8): 2004–05, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18
• Hungarian Cup
• Winners (4): 2005, 2010, 2013, 2014

International honours

Notable former players

Olympic champions

• Zoltán Halmay, swimming
• Richárd Weisz, wrestling (Greco-Roman)
• Márton Homonnai, water polo
• Ferenc Keserű, water polo
• Jenő Brandi, water polo
• Kálmán Hazai, water polo
• László Papp, boxing
• Imre Hódos, wrestling (Greco-Roman)
• Róbert Antal, water polo
• Nándor Hidegkuti, football
• Imre Kovács, football
• Mihály Lantos, football
• Péter Palotás, football
• József Zakariás, football
• Gyula Török, boxing
• Lajos Dunai, football
• István Sárközi, football
• Ildikó Tordasi, fencing (foil)
• Botond Storcz, canoe sprint
• Katalin Kovács, canoe sprint

Presidents

List of the presidents of the MTK Budapest:

• 1889–1891:
• 1892–1898:
• 1899–1903: Antal Heteés
• 1905–1944:
• 1945–1949: Zoltán Vass
• 1951–1953: János Somogyi
• 1953–1954: Lajos Kovács
• 1954–1956: István Tóth
• 1959–1963: István Dénes
• 1963–1969: Ferenc Bánhalmi
• 1969–1971: György Krekács
• 1971–2000: János Fekete
• 2001–2002:
• 2002–2003: Csaba Szecső
• 2004–2010:
• since 2010: Tamás Deutsch

References

External links

• Official website